Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.

16-year-old Max Dowman is the youngest goal scorer in Premier League history and what a moment to announce your arrival.

Arsenal's prodigy inspired Mikhail Arteta's side to a late, late win against Everton,

to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League table to nine points with seven games left to play.

We'll be discussing just how Special Arsenal's Boy Wonder and GCSE student is and could be,

and asking if this is the moment that Arsenal put one hand on the Premier League trophy.

At Stamford Bridge, more youthful giggles, as Chelsea played a game of ring of ring of roses around referee Paul Tierney before kickoff, before more schoolboy defending ultimately cost them against Newcastle.

And at Anfield, Richarlison's late strike earned Tottenham Hotspur, their first point under Igor Tudor against Liverpool, but draws for West Ham, Nottingham Forest and Leeds United mean the margins are still wafer thin in the relegation battle. I'm Gregor Robertson, and joining me in the studio today we have two London football reporters for the Times with a particular focus on Spurs and Arsenal, Tom Allnut and Gary Jacob and the Times tactical analyst with a particular focus on expected goals Hamza Khalik Lunat. Good to have you guys. Right, only one place to start. Max Dowman, 16 years and 73 days. This is the kind of stuff. You know, we've been moaning a lot this season it feels like about, you know, set plays, boring football, the Premier League's descent into, oh yeah, I'm looking at you. The Premier League descent into, I don't know, know Rugbear or whatever this is the kind of thing that everyone loves to see isn't it Gary you were there what a moment what a moment and it was I mean I'll say to to went for it didn't he but all the attackers on you think he deserves deserves credit for that? You know, he's been criticized a bit

recently. He probably had no choice. Okay. Yeah, I think he had no choice, really. I think

mentally a draw would have probably not been great, especially if the city had actually gone on

to win later on, and then coming up with quite the final weeks. I think he had no choice, really.

Rice dropped in and he put Downman right, and Downman's right since he's kind of had it had the minutes when he's when he's been playing and uh and and i mean it was a fantastic goal wasn't it it was i mean the cross was one thing but then obviously didn't the goal beyond that was and you could see it coming i think everyone in the stage stadium we could see as soon as he took his first touch

and he went around the second player.

He thought maybe he'll slip Martinelli through and let Martinelli score it, but actually just went on. And Martinelli is quite clever because you ran across Mikkelenko just to stop him and get into Downman at the end in case he was going to get to him. And it was quite a, yeah. What was the atmosphere like at that moment?

I think there was a builder, wasn't it?

Yeah.

I think we're saying there's never probably been quite

a cheer like it since the reese nelson last minute goal against bormouth a few years ago the three

the three all draw which um the whole stadium erupted that they when it's coming because it came out of

nowhere really reese nelson's left foot into the corner, I think it was from a corner. But, yeah, there's a whole stadium completely erupted. And also then in the corridors, everyone was kind of back slapping. It felt like, you know, this is one of their own and this is, they've brought him through. And I suppose it's been the moment that they've been waiting for when he's

come through the academy because they've seen it in the academy

but this is obviously on a much bigger scale

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